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BYU 1984 MAGAZINE

Jay Drew writes: Head coach Kalani Sitake and his undefeated BYU football team have made celebrating victories a priority this season, always reminding themselves that wins are hard to come by in college football, especially now that they are in a Power Four conference.

So after the now-No. 9 Cougars waxed UCF 37-24 at FBC Mortgage Stadium, Sitake and his players mostly brushed aside questions about the rivalry game with slumping Utah in a couple of weeks and said the focus this week will be on enjoying all eight of their wins to date and improving their level of play.

“We haven’t been a part of this rivalry yet, and we are excited for the next chapter,” quarterback Jake Retzlaff said after completing 16 of 24 passes for 228 yards and two touchdowns against the Knights. “So it is going to be a fun game. But that is looking pretty far forward right now. … So yeah, we are going to approach that game like any other game, and we know emotions might be high that week.”

Read more about BYU's focus during their upcoming bye week.

Western governors issue new call to action on geothermal energy

Amy Joi O'Donoghue writes: The Western Governors’ Association is urging bipartisan congressional passage of a geothermal act that would streamline the often laborious and uncertain permitting process to open up the carbon free energy potential in the West.

Utah is the among the top three U.S. generators of utility scale geothermal energy, following California and Nevada in developing what is called “the heat beneath your feet,” to tap reservoirs of the Earth’s red-hot core. That geothermal heat generates steam to turn turbines to produce electricity.

“Western states already lead the nation in energy production from a wide range of sources, and, given that the vast majority of high-yield geothermal energy capacity in the United States is in the West, are poised to lead in geothermal energy development as well,” read the letter signed by the chair of the Western Governors’ Association, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-New Mexico, and its vice chair, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, R-Utah. “By addressing some of the obstacles to its development, this bill would help unlock the potential of geothermal energy.”

Read more about the bipartisan support to streamline permitting process for geothermal energy.

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